Imo, to charge so soon they have an overwhelming amount of strong circumstantial evidence and far more cases are tried with convictions based on CE than case that have only direct evidence in them.
The DA is going to lay the case out link by link. The entire puzzle may not be there. It usually isnt in any case but it will have enough of the pieces there for the jury to see that no one other than this defendant did the things the DA is accusing him of.........
I do not believe that Sierra left with this man willingly but lets say for speculation sake she did. It still would not matter one iota. At anytime if Sierra wanted to go home and was held against her will by this then that is legally kidnapping someone. And not one juror is going to believe Sierra did not want to get away from this man who had intentions of doing grave bodily harm to her.
Imo, no jury is going to believe she even went willingly with a man she did not know and his defense attorney isnt going to find any link either between the suspect and the victim. So what reasonable juror is going to think she went willingly? CE are cases where common sense and logic will be in the forefront while connecting the dots. Does it make sense Sierra would go with a strange man and is never heard from again? Or that her own clothing that she was wearing that day wound up discarded along with her other personal possessions including her medication and has the suspect's DNA on it?
Not only do they tie him to Sierra's discarded items but they put Sierra in his car. So if he did not murder her then where is Sierra? The answer is obvious, imo. He kidnapped, raped, and murdered this young pretty girl because he could. There is no other logical explanation.
If they never find Sierra's body I dont think one person will question what his true motive was in committing this heinous crime. Why would he kidnap this young girl if it was not to rape her?
I dont know if he has murdered before but there is always a first time and violent people tend to esculate their violence especially if they arent caught right away.
No longer does it take many years in a missing body case. Regular citizens are more and more aware of them and these people will become potential jurors.
We have a beautiful girl on her way to the bus stop who never made it. We know now who she was with and imo, it was by force. This very social young girl who never went a day without social communication with either her family or friends and is gone but not without a trace. LE now knows who took Sierra away from her family and friends and in what vehicle.
What did you do with Sierra's body, Torres?